When vicar and wife team James and Karen leave sister-in-law Julia in charge of their vicarage, they are unaware that a career change has resulted in her operating as a dominatrix from the premises for the last two years. When the Bishop discovers that James and Karen are not living where they should, he encourages them to return. James phones Julia who agrees to leave and cancels her clients but two of them do not get the message. She also misses a message about a back order of adult equipment that is due to arrive the same day as a rearranged clergy meeting at the vicarage. Add to this an obsessed female parishioner in pursuit of a painfully shy male and the perfect storm ensues as vicar and wife attempt to keep Bishop and clergy separate from their uninvited guests.

The Tabard is an intimate, 96 seat theatre close to Turnham Green tube station in Chiswick, London. It opened in 1985 above the Tabard Pub, a popular and historic local landmark. It quickly built a strong reputation for new writing. Over the years the Tabard Theatre has played a key role in the development of London Theatre, highly acclaimed for its professional work and extremely popular within the community of West London.